The fight over President Obama’s health care law may be coming back to the Supreme Court as the Justices suggest they may be interested in revisiting a case that will raise many of the same challenges that came before the Court this past spring.
Category Archives: Health Care Reform
Judges Take Up HHS Mandate in Court
Oral arguments were presented in a Detroit courtroom last week in a motion to stop the implementation of the controversial birth control mandate, while a judge in Missouri dismissed a similar suit on grounds that it did not substantially burden a Catholic businessman’s right to the free exercise of his religion.
Bioethics Center Advises Non-Exempt Catholic Employers to Drop Health Insurance
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) has published guidelines for Catholic employers who are struggling to navigate the moral implications of the Obama Administration’s birth control mandate, advising some business that it is more morally licit to drop the insurance than to obey the law.
Religious Freedom Dies Today
The controversial birth control mandate which will force religious employers to provide insurance for services that violate their beliefs takes effect today, an event that many are calling the death of religious freedom in America.
Judge Grants Reprieve to Catholic Business
A U.S. District Court in Colorado granted an injunction to a Catholic-owned business that halts the August 1 implementation of the controversial HHS mandate pending further review of the firm’s lawsuit.
Lawyers File Emergency Motion to Stop Mandate
In an effort to prevent the Department of Health and Human Services’ birth control mandate from going into effect on August 1, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) has filed an emergency motion asking a federal district judge to stop the rule that would force most employers to cover birth control in their employee health plan with no co-pay.
Government to Compel Catholics to Violate Conscience
A chilling view of the upcoming battle for religious freedom took place in a U.S. district court last week when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a filing saying the government can and will compel a Catholic-owned family business to surrender their establishment if they refuse to offer insurance coverage that violates their religious beliefs.
Showdown Looming Over Conscience Rights
Lawmakers who are determined to prevent religious institutions from being forced to insure services that violate their consciences have turned to the legislative process to force a vote on the controversial HHS mandate just weeks before the November election.
What the ObamaCare Tax Means for the Middle Class
Even though the present battle on the Hill is about President Barack Obama’s vow not to tax any family making less than $250,000 annually, if ObamaCare and its mandated taxing system is not repealed, the new health care law will more than cancel out all the good that could have been done for the middle class by extending the Bush tax cuts.
SCOTUS Upholds ObamaCare
In a surprising 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the President’s signature health care reform plan can go forward, deciding that the controversial individual mandate is constitutional if it is applied as a tax rather than as part of the commerce clause.
